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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

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Your current competitive benchmarks status. Evaluate CDN performance by exploring the impact of time-of-day traffic patterns. Fixing high-traffic but poor-performing areas of your site will help lift your overall metrics. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. The current status of your performance budgets.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

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For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.”

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Why you need to know your site's performance poverty line (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

Background For this new investigation, I selected four sites that experience a significant amount of user traffic. Related: Web performance for retailers How to create correlation charts How to benchmark your site against your competitors How to set up real user monitoring (RUM)

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Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

Background For this new investigation, I selected four sites that experience a significant amount of user traffic. Related: Web performance for retailers How to create correlation charts How to benchmark your site against your competitors How to set up real user monitoring (RUM)